upcoming Delta fair tent and radio show - Aug 14-16, 2026

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We will be at our regular fair booth this year to show fair-goers what Amateur Radio is all about.  We'll have flyers to handout and radios setup for people to try. This year we will have an ARRL Special Events Station running for the weekend.  Plan to stop by and hang out with the club for a while and, of course, visit the fairgrounds.

If you've been studying for your Technician Class License, get tested before July 1, 2026.  The new question pool comes into effect.  We will be teaching that at our fall Technicians Class.

If you have a group interested in Amateur Radio Training and Licensing, contact us and we can setup a custom class for you and provide in-person testing for all license classes.

We will be setting up for ARRL Summer Field Day - Sat June 27 at the End of the Highway Farmers Market.  This is a great opportunity to meet with the community and run your field rig.  If you can setup your radio and help introduce visitors to Amateur Radio, please plan to be there.  Also, try to make some contacts - the bands should be busy.  If you can't setup, stop by and visit the tents for a while.

April 19th is Amateur Radio World Field Day.  We will be setting up at the Pioneer Park Pavilion   starting at about 9 AM.  Bring your radios and antennas, setup, and talk to other radio enthusiasts..

If you are new to amateur radio or thinking about getting into it, stop by and see us, try your hand at HF and VHF radio.

June 28-29 is ARRL Field day. https://www.arrl.org/FIELD-DAY

We will be setup in the Pioneer Park Pavilion at 9AM Saturday.  Stop by and join us.  More info to follow.......

Delta Amateur Radio Club (https://kl7drc.org/),. is sponsoring a HAM Radio General License Class  22 - 23 February and 1 - 2 March 2025.  

Time is 9:00 am - 5:00 pm each day.  Location is Mt. McKinley Bank building in the conference room.

We will be administering testing for HAM Radio Technician, General and Extra Licenses at approximately 4:00 pm on Sunday, March 2.  The testing is open to everyone, please contact John Bruce prior to February 22, if you would like to test.   

There is a small administrative fee  of $10 for the test session.

We will be utilizing the ARRL General Class License Manual..  We recommend those wishing to test to start studying now.

Please contact John, KL4O at 813-313-9964 or hardtime11@hotmail.com with any questions and to let us know you are coming for the classes and/or the test.  We will accept test applicants in the community not taking the class but would like to be notified in advance to get registered and set up properly.  We ask for no test takers unless they have been studying or taken the class as we are donating our personal time for this.

Effective April 19, 2022, the FCC fee for a FRN (FCC Registration Number) is lowered to $35. An FRN is required by the FCC to get any type of Radio license.  There is no charge for address changes, license upgrades, or sequential call sign changes.

FCC Announcement

ARRL Announcement

Members who have donated either equipment or cash to the club during the 2020 tax year can potentially deduct these amounts from their returns, as DARC is a tax-exempt non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization.  Please send an itemized list of contributions to Mr. Dean Jazzo, DARC Treasurer, for a receipt.  Also, keep DARC in mind if you are considering a donation for taxes in 2020."

The regular monthly membership meeting of the D.A.R.C. was held at the Diamond Willow Inn on Tuesday, 10 November and inaugurated the first annual D.A.R.C. Thanksgiving Potluck!  Club members enjoyed the typical Thanksgiving meal, with Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and a wonderful selection of sides provided by individual members.  A big 73 goes out to Sherri and Gordon Decker, owners of the hotel, Mrs. Shawna Kinsman, our club "Chef" who cooked the turkey and basics, and to each and every club member who participated and brought in a wide variety of delicious dishes.  A great event was had by all!

DARC Members:  Just a friendly reminder that the club will be holding an ARES Emergency Exercise in conjunction with ARRL S.E.T. next Saturday, 3 October from 9am until noon.  I have the following members or guests signed up:

Brian - KL2AV

Dean - KC7FWK

Scott - KL5AO

Val - KL5AQ

John - KL4O

Jerry - KL7EDK

Bill - KL7IDA

ARES Alert messaging will begin at the end of next week prior to Saturday.  To sign up please PM me or send an email.  This will be a fun, weather event-related exercise and we'll practice ICS-213 and Radiogram message formatting and sending, Net communications and coordination. Everyone is invited to join in!     73 - Jeff, KL2NL

DARC Members:  Good news!  We received our acceptance letter today from the IRS and we're officially a tax exempt organization!   A big THANK YOU to Dean KC7FWK for his efforts to get this done!  73 - Jeff KL2NL

KL7DRC.org went online on June 9th, 2020.  

New content and features will be added daily as we build the site.  

Please contact Jeff K (KL2NL) and/or Scott W (KL5AN) if you have any comments or ideas for KL7DRC.org.

CONGRATULATIONS to our new hams that passed their FCC Technician license exam today!   Welcome to the amateur radio community and we're very glad to have you  as a part of the worldwide community of hams!